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... course of which he explored the coast of New South Wales , and added that great country to the possessions of the British Crown . As the transit of Venus gives the most exact method of calculating the distance of the earth from the sun ...
... course of which he explored the coast of New South Wales , and added that great country to the possessions of the British Crown . As the transit of Venus gives the most exact method of calculating the distance of the earth from the sun ...
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... course of erection , under the guidance of M. Janssen , at Fontenay in France , and others are springing up or already exist in Germany and Italy . It is earnestly to be hoped that this country will not lag behind in providing physical ...
... course of erection , under the guidance of M. Janssen , at Fontenay in France , and others are springing up or already exist in Germany and Italy . It is earnestly to be hoped that this country will not lag behind in providing physical ...
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... course of laborious experiments to determine the constants of his instrument . From seven years ' observations at the Observa- tory of Armagh , he has found that the mean velocity of the wind is greatest in the S.S.W. octant and least ...
... course of laborious experiments to determine the constants of his instrument . From seven years ' observations at the Observa- tory of Armagh , he has found that the mean velocity of the wind is greatest in the S.S.W. octant and least ...
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... course of precipitation , and in such a way as to form , not sheets or floors , but bosses of a more or less conical form , which , whilst they rested on Breccia , had their lower slopes covered with the same material , so that their ...
... course of precipitation , and in such a way as to form , not sheets or floors , but bosses of a more or less conical form , which , whilst they rested on Breccia , had their lower slopes covered with the same material , so that their ...
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... course they were tempted partly on account of the severe and protracted labour which , from their very limited breadth and the character of their deposits , must attend the excavation of these branches , and partly by the wealth of ...
... course they were tempted partly on account of the severe and protracted labour which , from their very limited breadth and the character of their deposits , must attend the excavation of these branches , and partly by the wealth of ...
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Page xvii - cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers,—to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. EULES. Admission of Members and Associates. All persons who
Page xvii - attended the first Meeting shall be entitled to become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an obligation to conform to its Rules. The Fellows and Members of Chartered Literary and Philosophical Societies publishing Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in
Page i - Second Report upon the Action of Air and Water, whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at various temperatures, upon Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel ;—RW Fox, Report on some Observations on Subterranean Temperature ;—AF Osier, Report on the Observations recorded during the years
Page vi - Prof. Powell, Third Report on the present State of our Knowledge of Radiant Heat ;—Colonel Sabine, on some of the results obtained at the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories;— Colonel Portlock, Report of the Committee on Earthquakes, with their proceedings respecting Seismometers;—Dr. Gladstone, on the influence of the Solar Radiations on the Vital
Page 111 - caves) show no marks of degradation. The former does not present so low a type as that of most existing savages, but is (to use the words of Prof. Huxley) "a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." The latter are still more remarkable, being unusually large and well formed.
Page xviii - of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this Subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and all future years the privilege of receiving the volumes of the Association
Page xx - each Author should prepare an Abstract of hie Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before addressed thus—" General Secretaries, British Association, 22
Page vii - John P. Hodges, MD, on Flax; — Major-General Sabine, Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain; — Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1856-57 ; — C. Vignoles, CE, on the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the passage of Railway Trains; — Professor WA Miller, MD,on Electro-Chemistry ; — John Simpson, RN, Results of
Page xv - to prepare and print Tables of Wave-numbers ;—Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer of Mr. Siemens ;—Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experiments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface &c. ;—Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and
Page iv - Dove on his recently constructed Maps of the Monthly Isothermal Lines of the Globe, and on some of the principal Conclusions in regard to Climatology deducible from them ; with an introductory Notice by Lt.-Col. E. Sabine;—Dr. Daubeny, on the progress of the